The Island of Alternatives: Power, Medical Science, and "Gentle Birthing" in Socialist Czechoslovakia

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrx056" target="_blank" >10.1093/jhmas/jrx056</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Island of Alternatives: Power, Medical Science, and "Gentle Birthing" in Socialist Czechoslovakia

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Beginning in the early 1980s, medical experts and birthing women increasingly voiced criticism of what had long been the technocratic, depersonalized nature of obstetric treatment in Czechoslovakia, despite the limited opportunities for them to do so publicly. A few maternity hospitals responded to the complaints by introducing radically different regimens of care. This article examines the history of one reformist project that took place in the small town of Ostrov nad Ohrı. Ostrov means &quot;island&quot; in Czech and, during the last decade of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, the Ostrov hospital became an island of alternative obstetric care, embracing Leboyer&apos;s method of &quot;gentle birthing,&quot; acupuncture, fathers in delivery rooms, and assorted technological innovations that aimed to spark fundamental change in familial and social relationships, and humanize childbirth. While many medical professionals decried these reforms as nonsensical and dangerous, a number of parents-to-be flocked to Ostrov to give birth, circumventing the official rules mandating that they receive healthcare in their area of residence. This proactive consumerist behavior among expectant parents, in tandem with the call of some physicians for more attention to individual and family needs, despite the opposing official political discourse, is evidence of a grassroots movement for market-oriented principles in healthcare that reflected broader societal change during the last decade of the Communist regime.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Island of Alternatives: Power, Medical Science, and "Gentle Birthing" in Socialist Czechoslovakia

Popis výsledku anglicky

Beginning in the early 1980s, medical experts and birthing women increasingly voiced criticism of what had long been the technocratic, depersonalized nature of obstetric treatment in Czechoslovakia, despite the limited opportunities for them to do so publicly. A few maternity hospitals responded to the complaints by introducing radically different regimens of care. This article examines the history of one reformist project that took place in the small town of Ostrov nad Ohrı. Ostrov means &quot;island&quot; in Czech and, during the last decade of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, the Ostrov hospital became an island of alternative obstetric care, embracing Leboyer&apos;s method of &quot;gentle birthing,&quot; acupuncture, fathers in delivery rooms, and assorted technological innovations that aimed to spark fundamental change in familial and social relationships, and humanize childbirth. While many medical professionals decried these reforms as nonsensical and dangerous, a number of parents-to-be flocked to Ostrov to give birth, circumventing the official rules mandating that they receive healthcare in their area of residence. This proactive consumerist behavior among expectant parents, in tandem with the call of some physicians for more attention to individual and family needs, despite the opposing official political discourse, is evidence of a grassroots movement for market-oriented principles in healthcare that reflected broader societal change during the last decade of the Communist regime.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

ISSN

0022-5045

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

73

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

73-95

Kód UT WoS článku

000431346900005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85042350131